The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

—Mignon McLaughlin

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

—Mignon McLaughlin

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.

—Mignon McLaughlin

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

—W. C. Fields

People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.

—Dagobert D. Runes

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines